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Ban jin ba liang (1976)

| Comedy | 16 December 1976 (Hong Kong)
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Private Eyes revolves the characters in a private detective agency headed by Wong Yuk-See (Michael Hui) with two employees, a stuttered, easily bullied Pighead (Ricky Hui) and secretary/... See full summary »

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Wong Yuk-see
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Jacky (as Agee Chiu)
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Kien Shih ...
Gow-suk - Uncle 9 (as Kin Shek)
Mu Chu ...
Mr. Chu (Guest star)
Stanley Hui ...
Love Hotel Manager (Guest star)
Yam Chan ...
Softdrink Factory Substitute (Guest star)
Chun Ying Chang ...
Love Hotel Customer (Guest star)
Siu-Fong Lai ...
Mrs. Mok
Siu Ping Cheng ...
'Pregnant' Shoplifter
Shun-Yin Leung ...
Mrs. Chu (as Suen-yin Leung)
Kim-Wan Chan ...
Mistaken Pickpocket
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Private Eyes revolves the characters in a private detective agency headed by Wong Yuk-See (Michael Hui) with two employees, a stuttered, easily bullied Pighead (Ricky Hui) and secretary/receptionist, Jacky (Angie Chiu). The agency was soon joined by an out-of-work bottling plant employee Lee Kwok-Kit (Sam Hui). Among them, they took on various cases, mostly involving adulterous men and women. Comedic adventures occurred when Wong and Lee carried out these investigations. In the movie's finale, the two were trying to capture a blackmailer to a local theater and it ties several earlier sketches together. Written by traveler85

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In the film there are various interesting snippets of music used, Radar Love by Golden Earring, The Theme From Jaws by John Williams and The Theme From Enter The Dragon by Lalo Schiffrin. Ironically Shih Kien who played the bad guy Mr. Han in Enter The Dragon appears in this film too. See more »

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dig that funky music!
8 November 2002 | by (detroit) – See all my reviews

this movie is great, i saw at least a dozen referances to other movies that ripped "The Private Eyes" off.

great comedy, i love Sam Hui's music. Ricky Hui is great, wish he had more comedic parts in this one tho.
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